Hispanophone literature

Fracture

by Andrés Neuman, Nick Caistor & Lorenza Garcia

Critically acclaimed, prize-winning author Andrés Neuman's Fracture is an ambitious literary novel set against Japan's 2011 nuclear accident in a cross-cultural story about how every society remembers and forgets...

Like Flies from Afar

by K. Ferrari & Adrian Nathan West

"This novel should come not with blurbs but with a hazardous-material warning: There's bone and gristle here, be ready for that taste in your mouth you can't spit out. First words to last, it's strong stuff."...

The Mutations

by Jorge Comensal & Charlotte Whittle

"Jorge Comensal's The Mutations oscillates masterfully between comedy and tragedy, gathering up in its pages a stupendous panoply of characters before whom the reader is never sure whether to smile in sympathy...

Space Invaders

by Nona Fernandez & Natasha Wimmer

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature

A dreamlike evocation of a generation that grew up in the shadow of a dictatorship in 1980s Chile

Space Invaders is the story of a group of childhood...

It Would Be Night in Caracas

by Karina Sainz Borgo & Elizabeth Bryer

As seen in the New York Times Book Review 

Told with gripping intensity, It Would be Night in Caracas chronicles one woman’s desperate battle to survive amid the dangerous, sometimes deadly, turbulence of...

The wounded words

by Jordi Sierra i Fabra & Borja Roca

In an oriental country under a dictatorship, young Li Huan is based in a political prisoners camp for his military service. Big Father's devoted follower as well as the doctrine of the party, on the other hand...

The Wind That Lays Waste

by Selva Almada

A taut, lyrical portrait of four people thrown together on a single day in rural Argentina

The Wind That Lays Waste begins in the great pause before a storm. Reverend Pearson is evangelizing across the Argentinian...

The Optic Nerve

by María Gainza & Thomas Bunstead

Tentacle

by Rita Indiana & Achy Obejas

Plucked from her life on the streets of post-apocalyptic Santo Domingo, young maid Acilde Figueroa finds herself at the heart of a Santería prophecy: only she can travel back in time and save the ocean –...

The Naked Woman

by Armonía Somers, Kit Maude & Elena Chavez Goycochea

When The Naked Woman was originally published in 1950, critics doubted a woman writer could be responsible for its shocking erotic content. Fantastic themes are juxtaposed with brutal depictions of misogyny...

The Imagined Land

by Eduardo Berti & Charlotte Coombe

With sensuous imagery and musical cadence, Berti conjures up a star-crossed love story for a brother and sister in pre-revolutionary China. Their hearts' desires collide with their parents' strictness, superstitions,...

The Labyrinth of the Spirits

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books #4

by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

New York Times bestseller

One of O: The Oprah Magazine's 15 Favorite Books of 2018

A Library Journal Best Book of 2018

The internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author returns to the magnificent...

After the Winter

by Guadalupe Nettel & Rosalind Harvey

• Guadalupe Nettel has already established a reputation for herself in this country with Natural Histories and The Body Where I Was Born, and we’re delighted to have yet another exceptional young Mexican...

Poso Wells

by Gabriela Alemán & Dick Cluster

In the squalid settlement of Poso Wells, women have been regularly disappearing but the authorities have shown little interest. When the leading presidential candidate, a pompous huckster, comes to town for...

The Story of H

by Marina Perezagua

From an audacious new talent, The Story of H describes a searing quest by a Japanese woman and an American soldier to find a girl who goes missing in the aftermath of Hiroshima, a journey that spans the globe...

Collected Poems

by Federico Garcia Lorca & Christopher Maurer

A revised edition of this major writer's complete poetical work

And I who was walking

with the earth at my waist,

saw two snowy eagles

and a naked girl.

The one was the other

and the girl was neither.

-from "Qasida...

People in the Room

by Norah Lange & Charlotte Whittle

A young woman in Buenos Aires spies three women in the house opposite her family’s home. Intrigued, she begins to watch them. She imagines them as accomplices to an unknown crime, as troubled spinsters contemplating...

Comemadre

2018 National Book Awards Longlist for Translated Literature #3

by Roque Larraquy & Heather Cleary

Comemadre is a natural fit for our Latin American translation list—funny, oddball, and dark. It came to us recommended by Valeria Luiselli and Daniel Saldaña París and is our first collaboration with translator...

Nevada Days

by Bernardo Atxaga

A seductive, unclassifiable blend of autobiography and fiction set in Reno, from the preeminent Basque author

Nine months as a writer in residence can prove unnerving for anyone. For Bernardo Atxaga, newly arrived...

Brother in Ice

by Alicia Kopf & Mara Faye Lethem

‘She thought that it was precisely when things get uncomfortable or can’t be shown that something interesting comes to light. That is the point of no return, the point that must be reached, the point you...